Archive for December, 2007

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

One of my Airplanes!

Capt. Allison Black, with 1st Air Force Special Ops, in December 2001. A month earlier, she had her first combat mission the skies over Afghanistan, and took out more than 250 Taliban fighters with cannon onboard her AC-130H Spectre gunship. Female airmen deadly in Iraq, Afghanistan A small cadre of women prove their mettle in […]

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Feast of Maximus, confessor, about 662

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Feast of Anysia, martyr, 304

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Feast of Sabinus, bishop of Assisium, and his companions, martyrs, 304

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Feast of Josephine Butler

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Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Feast of Egwin

installment bad loan credit for The consistency of increased crash risk between hands-free and hand-held phone use is at odds with legislation in over 30 countries that prohibit hand-held phone use but allow hands-free. refinancing loan equity * SMAF: Yamaha music format that combines MIDI with instrument sound data (aka Module files). loan home equity […]

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Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Kayt and Hannah, December 2007

My neices. I can remember when each was an infant, and now Kayt is about to graduate from high school and Hannah is in the 4th Grade!!!

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Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Feast of Harold

This is the anniversary of my father-in-law joining the Choir Invisible and the Church Triumphant. Ironically, it is also the anniversary of the founding of the YMCA, for which he worked for so many years:

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Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Most Literate U.S. Cities: Minneapolis and Seattle

You go, Prairie and Mike!!! by Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.comThu Dec 27, 12:40 PM ET Residents of Minneapolis and Seattle are the most bookish and well-read, according to results from a new survey released today of the most literate American cities. The survey focused on 69 U.S. cities with populations of 250,000 or […]

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Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Bitter, But True

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